Ahrar leaders Eid speech: Calls for factional unity. Fears over the fate of Deir ez-Zour. Emphasise politics alongside the military. Warns of countries trying to split Syria into its fields of interest, with separatists (YPG) & demographical changes (Shia militias). Says they adopted the Unified Arab Code as a step to unify the courts and so on.

Eyewitnesses hours after the killing of Sheikh Awqaf North Sinai Unidentified gunmen kidnap Abdel Moneim Said Hassan Khalil, a worker of the Khalid bin Walid Mosque in Al-Malah area behind the hero neighborhood of Arish

Gunmen attacked a military outpost at daybreak in Pigkawayan, a farming town in Cotabato province, about 160 kilometers (100 miles) from Marawi city where fighters linked to the Daesh (Islamic State) group have been battling troops for a month.